Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Americans need faith, not only in God, but, while the battle is on, in our leaders as well. After the war they will be held to strict account for every detail of their stewardship-but here and now we don't even bring up Pearl Harbor...
...chief lion-baiting took place in Boston. Some wag invited a detail of British tars to march in the St. Patrick's parade. This aroused the bellicose South Boston Citizens Association, the parade sponsors. "Very regrettable misunderstanding," snorted Parade Marshal John Walsh. "There'll be no foreign armed forces parading here." The British did not march. (Boston Irish also celebrate March 17 as Evacuation Day, in memory of the departure of the British redcoats...
Washington matrons avidly devoured each minute detail of this love-after-40 crime passionnel. It was as if a set of genteel Temple Bailey romancers had wandered by mistake into the raw youthful violence of a James M. Cain plot...
Fanny Brice, radio's famed brattish Baby Snooks, is also an ardent collector of artistic "Snooksology"−drawings and paintings by children. Like paintings by the insane, paintings by children, she believes, are often inspired by a freshness of visual impact and a perception of significant detail which other artists lose by remaining sane and growing up. Last week young & old Baltimoreans could see what Miss Brice means, at an exhibit of 41 drawings and paintings selected from more than 100 "masterpieces" by children, which for 20-odd years she has been assembling in Europe...
...intense mind, practical and lyrical at once, studious in detail, saved from despair by his love of history and quickened by the vastness of the tragedy he was witnessing, led him into a state where he seemed to live suspended between the unreal and changing Present and the majestic and vanished Past...